O'Donnell to End Magazine Venture With Bertelsmann

WSJ.com ^ | 9/18/02 | Matthew Rose

[GeneD]

NEW YORK - Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell plans to terminate her magazine publishing joint venture with Bertelsmann AG's Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, people familiar with the matter said.

The magazine, called Rosie, has been roiled since mid-summer amid battles between Ms. O'Donnell and her publisher over who has editorial control of the woman's title.

[ladtx]

How will I ever survive.

[ironman]

Who cares? Why is this breaking news?

[Freedom2specul8]

Miss "throw gunowners in prison" odonnell ....couldn't have happened to a better person.

[concerned about politics]

Guess the publishers refused to go dyke enough for Rosie, aye?
I don't think the nation really cares. Who'd buy that junk, anyway?

[freedomson]

Door, meet ass.

[Joe Brower]

[GeneD]

I confess what with three vaguely defined posting categories as "Breaking News," "Front Page News" and "Extended News" I sometimes don't know where to place a story -- and several times when I posted important stories (so they seemed) in the Breaking category -- the Olympic skating fix comes to mind -- they got knocked down a notch by the moderators. Such posts (I further confess) are often a spur-of-the-moment thing. I thought it was important as a once-prominent magazine is folding and I know how many Freepers are over Rosie (a little too much sometimes). I wonder if we need three news categories in the first place.

[SerpentDove]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I always read Rosie's fawning over President Bush after Sept. 11 as a gratuitous, desperate grab at some kind of admiring audience.

Sad news indeed. HAR HAR HAR

[vikingchick]

Later days, Rosie McDonald's. Hope you invested heavily in your mag.

[Jhensy]

Rosie better watch it. She's killed off her two sources of income within 3 months and aliented permanently a majority of the population to boot.....to live large (no pun intended), you gotta keep the income flowing. How does she expect to maintain her expensive lifestyle?